Gilman squash coach Boo Smith isn't sure which was more impressive -- the consistency and leadership of his No. 1 player and U.S. Naval Academy-bound senior Davis Owen or the 24-0 season put together by sophomore Braxton Antill.

Nicole Sharpe had the kind of dominant performance many thought she was capable of in leading Dulaney to a 59-51 victory in overtime over Perry Hall in a girls basketball Class 4A North Region first-round playoff game Friday night.

Western Tech senior Renford Richards scored the last basket on a thunderous baseline dunk in the Wolverines’ 62-37 blowout win over visiting Loch Raven in the first game of the Class 2A North Region playoffs, but it resonated the most with the fans and coach Mike Slepesky.

Philip D. Snodgrass, who was an assistant general counsel at the National Federation of Federal Employees and a 2005 graduate of Dulaney High School, was killed Monday in downtown Washington when he was hit by a speeding motorist.

Long pressured by animal advocates to make changes at Baltimore County's animal shelter, County Executive Kevin Kamenetz said Thursday he's adding more employees, expanding low-cost spaying and neutering services and piloting a program for neutering feral cats.

Cockeysville/Hunt Valley

Paul C. Hagan, a veteran Baltimore advertising executive who brought his creative genius to such legendary Maryland-based companies as the old National Brewing Co., Martin Marietta, Marriott Hotels and McCormick Spices, died Feb. 15 of a massive heart attack at his Mays Chapel home. He was 83.

There have been a couple of changes lately at the old Vito's Cafe, a sterling Italian restaurant in a shopping center on York Road in Cockeysville. Last summer, the family-owned establishment, which had been a BYOB, got a license to serve wine, beer and liquor. And more recently, the...

A report commissioned by the Baltimore County Volunteer Firemen's Association that recommends closing three of its member stations and merging several others has triggered a backlash from volunteers who vow a fight to keep their station doors open.

Owings Mills/Pikesville

Oren Miller, a stay-at-home dad who created A Blogger and a Father blog, which attracted worldwide attention, and the equally successful Facebook group "Dad Bloggers," died Saturday at his Owings Mills home of cancer. He was 42.

The premise that motorists are not allowed to drive fast enough on some of Maryland's highways is the apparent rationale behind a bill that passed 39-7 last week in the state Senate. The bill would raise the state's top speed limit from 65 to 70 miles per hour. The bill now goes to the House of...

White Marsh

Chris Nusbaum of Taneytown said that he and other blind students don't always readily take to learning Braille. His first few years with the touch-sensitive writing system meant being pulled from regular classes at Running Meade Elementary School to practice. No fun, he said.

A massive construction project to widen the southwest section of the Beltway is intended to ease congestion for drivers, but those who live nearby say it's coming at the cost of more noise and disruption for their neighborhoods.

Maryland State Police arrested a motorist who fled the scene of a hit-and-run accident on Interstate 95 in Harford County Thursday night only to be apprehended while driving through traffic stalled by emergency road repair, authorities said.

The Inner Harbor's just-opened Shake Shack outpost is garnering big headlines but it's not the only new burger joint in town. On the northern edge of the city, the talk is all about the independently owned restaurant Clark Burger.